[TenTec] Orion 2 and Xlog keyer

[jack]

does Xlog not send the CW to a serial or parallel port? i use MixW and it 
sends the keying to your choice of several serial ports or the parallel port 
(printer port).
Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John B. Egger" <john_egger at comcast.net>
To: <TenTec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 5:31 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion 2 and Xlog keyer


> Can anyone on the list help me with the "keyer" function of the Linux
> program Xlog? I can hear its contest macros ("TU 73," "CQ de K3GHH
> test," etc.), and CW typed on the keyboard, on the computer's internal
> speaker (though not the speakers plugged into its "speaker" terminal),
> but have not yet figured out how to get these data to key the Orion.
>
> My sound card has "speaker," "line out," and "microphone" sockets, each
> taking a 1/8" stereo phono plug. Right now (using adapters) I have the
> yellow  female RCA Aux/IO cable ("line level audio out") plugged into my
> sound card's "line out," and the black female RCA Aux/IO cable ("PTT")
> plugged into the sound card's "microphone" socket (using the tip
> connection on the stereo plug). When I touch that PTT tip to the
> computer chassis, the Orion keys.
>
> I don't know if this is an Xlog or an Orion question, but had to start
> somewhere. I have not figured out the Xlog documentation on its "keyer"
> function; it took me a while even to discover that a program called
> "cwdaemon" had to be installed.
>
> Ultimately I hope to try psk31, but thought I might start this
> Orion/soundcard interaction stuff with the keyer. BTW, I do have a
> serial port connection established, using hamlib. All I really use it
> for is to insert the Orion's frequency into Xlog.
>
> -- 
> --John K3GHH
> Registered Linux User #291592
> Klikit Linux 0.1-9RC1-G
>
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